baby universe
Astronomy
noun
(In multiverse theories of cosmology) a young, small universe.
- Now often with reference to the cosmological theory of Lee Smolin (b. 1955), United States physicist, in which universes are ‘born’ in black holes, their properties varying from generation to generation by a process analogous to natural selection..
Origin
1980s.
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